Blathnaid O'Dea is a Features Editor at pv magazine Global. She specializes in writing feature-length articles on energy sustainability, renewable energy, and energy policy, while also covering news related to Ireland's renewable energy developments. Blathnaid's work has been featured in pv magazine USA, pv magazine Global, Silicon Republic, and Energy Storage.
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By: Blathnaid O Dea
Global transformer manufacturing capacity reached 4,700 gigavolt-amperes (GVA) in 2025, supported by around 400 plants operated by more than 260 manufacturers. These statistics are from a new report by Rystad illustrating the global energy market's dependence on access to critical grid equipment.
Centrica Energy will optimize trading for Aukera's 340 MWh Project Volt battery energy storage (BESS) project under construction in La Louviere, Belgium.
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“We are geopolitically independent. We are combining the best of both worlds: innovation from the US and creating our manufacturing footprint in China,” Henning Rath, newly appointed CEO, Enervenue, told ESS News from the company’s manufacturing base in Changzhou, China.
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AB CarVal, which led Pathway Power's debt funding round, said the financing will support projects addressing load growth from data centers and reshoring in congested markets in the US.
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Irish developer Net Zero Energy is planning to build a large-scale long-duration energy storage (LDES) plant worth around €2 billion in County Carlow, in the east of the country.
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CATL, BYD, JA Solar, Trina Solar, Three Gorges and Huawei are among those listed under the US Department of Defense's trade restriction, effective from 2027.
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From a traditional standalone, grid-scale battery energy storage (BESS) in Arizona to an initiative turning second-life electric vehicle batteries into grid storage, these US projects are doubling down on grid support.
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Heat pumps could offer annual energy savings up to €800 ($924) in the EU, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). But deployment is very uneven in both residential and industrial settings, which the IEA attributes to market structures and policy design, which varies from country to country.
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A LUT University study finds that data centers could be powered continuously by intermittent renewables like wind and solar when paired with backup generation and demand-side flexibility. However, achieving firm supply would require major overbuild, significant curtailment, and careful siting to keep costs competitive with other baseload sources.
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Hagag Europe and Airengy's Romania project will harness the latter's long duration energy storage AirBattery technology with underground salt caverns to eventually reach 5 GWh storage capacity. Airengy told ESS News commercial operation is likely to begin in early 2028.
